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Ambrose Pittman
1709 - 3/3/1787
Ambrose Pittman was born about 1709 in Surry County, Virginia and died on March 3, 1787 in Halifax, North Carolina. Actual date of birth is unknown. He lived to be about 78 years old.

He married Annie Streeter (1720 Edgecombe,NC - 2/27/1787 Pitt, NC)

Children:
Lucy (1738)
Elisha (1739)
Arthur(1742)
Nancy (1752)
Phebe(1756)
Miller(1761)
Gilpha (1762)
Zelpha (1762)
John (1769)
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Census1/1/1786 NC (Halifax County County) 77 yrs old 
Ambrose Pitman, State: NC, County: Halifax County, Township: District #11, Year: 1786, Record Type: State or colonial census, Page: 001, Database: NC Early Census Index 
Census1/1/1787 NC  78 yrs old 
Ambrose Pittman, Probate Year: 1787, Inferred Place of Death: North Carolina, Full Abstract: 1787, Names in will - Lila (wife), Elisha, Elijah, Arthur, Miller, Willie and John.  Source:  North Carolina, Will Abstracts, 1760-1800

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43 1752 Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar on 9/14/1752.
60 1769 The first steam engine is invented by Watt
68 1777 The concept of chemical compounds is conceived by Lavoisier
74 1783 The hot air balloon is invented by Michel and Montgolfier and the first people in modern history fly at an altitude of 1800 m.
76 1785 The power loom was invented by Cartwright to produce cloth.
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40 1749 Laws in GA prohibiting the importation of slaves are rescinded. Georgia planters were hiring SC slaves for life and even openly purchasing slaves at the dock in Savannah.
66 1775 NEWS HEADLINES: On April 18th, Paul Revere makes his famous ride proclaiming "The British are Coming" and the American Revolution War begins. Britain hires 29,000 German mercenaries to handle conflict in North America.
67 1776 NEWS HEADLINES: July 4th, American Revolution War ends and the United States of America is officially created.
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2 1711 The Tuscarora War begins between the local Indians and colonists. After two years of fighting, the Tuscarora Indians move west.
9 1718 Blackbeard, the pirate is killed off the North Carolina coast.
10 1719 By 1719, North Carolina and South Carolina have separated into two colonies.
58 1767 Tryon Palace is build in New Bern, NC, and becomes the capitol building for the North Carolina colonist.
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11 1720 The population of American colonists reaches 475,000. Boston (pop. 12,000) is the largest city, followed by Philadelphia (pop. 10,000) and New York (pop. 7000)
21 1730 Map of US Colonies
23 1732 James Oglethorpe establishes the Georgia Colony in the new world. The new settlers form friendships with the Creek Indian Nation towns in this area. Georgia is the thirteen English colony to be settled.
38 1747 The New York Bar Association is founded in New York City
41 1750 Charleston, SC, has become the most affluent and largest city in the South. It is the leading port and trading center for the southern colonies. The population in the Carolinas has exceeded 100,000 with many French Protestant Huguenots. The wealth plantation owners bring private tutors from Ireland and Scotland. Public education does not exist.
51 1760 The Cherokee War (1760-61) ends in a treaty that opens the Up County for settlement. The Bounty At of 1761 offers public land tax free for ten years, and settlers from other colonies begin pouring into the Carolina "Up Country".
54 1763 Georgia Gazette begins publication. It is the first newspaper in Georgia and the eighth newspaper in the English colonies.
57 1766 Britain passes the Stamp Act taxing all colonial newspapers, advertisements, leases, licenses, pamphlets, and legal documents. Later the same year, Britain repeals the Stamp Act in Britain -- but it continues to be enforced on colonists in North America
64 1773 Angered by the tea tax of 1767 and the British East India Company's monopoly on tea trade, the independent New England colonial merchants dump the precious cargo overboard into the Boston harbor. This incident is called the Boston Tea Party.
65 1774 The First Continental Congress of fifty-five representatives (except from the colony of Georgia) meets in Philadelphia to discuss relations with Britain, the possibility of independence, and the hope of a peaceful solution. King George III scorns the thought of reconciliation and declares the colonies to be in a state of open rebellion.
66 1775 On April 18th, Paul Revere makes his famous ride proclaiming "The British are Coming" and the American Revolution War begins. Britain hires 29,000 German mercenaries to handle conflict in North America.
67 1776 July 4th, American Revolution War ends and the United States of America is officially created.
69 1778 Alliance between United States and France
78 1787 Constitution of the United States is signed
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6 1715 War of Spanish Succession ends
29 1738 System of forced labor to build roads in France is devised by Jean Orry
34 1743 King George's War against North America and Caribbean begins
39 1748 King George's War against North America and Caribbean ends
47 1756 Seven Year's War begins
50 1759 Jesuits are forced out of France
54 1763 Seven Year's War ends; Peace is established in Paris between France, Spain, England and Portugal
55 1764 Britain passes the Sugar Act forbids American importation of foreign rum and taxing imported molasses, wine, silk, coffee, and a number of other luxury items.
58 1767 Jesuits are forced out of Spanish America
70 1779 Spain declares war on England
71 1780 Josef II abolishes serfdom in Hungary; England declares war on Holland
74 1783 Peace established at Versailles between France, England, Spain and United States; Britain cedes all lands west to the Mississippi River
78 1787 Catherine the Great leads Russia into war with Turkey


The Children of Ambrose Pittman

Zilpha Pitman
Born in Wayne County, North Carolina on January 16, 1762 and died in Wayne County, North Carolina about 1835. She was about 73 years old.

She married Simon Peacock in Wayne Co. NC. Her parents are Ambrose & Ann Pitman....
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